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  No Trivia's Friday Five: French Montana Can Out-Weeknd the Weeknd, Who Knew?

  February 8, 2013 – Oh, brother. Anniversaries on anniverseries on anniversaries. Get Rich or Die Tryin' turns 10 and it still kind of stinks! Dilla's Donuts dropped yesterday seven years ago and well, okay, woah, we're all getting old and a genius is still dead and not enough people care. And a small amount of people care way too much. …
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  First Spin: Super Helpful's Hiss-Hop EP, 'The Help'

  January 2, 2013 – Lee Bannon began last year with Fantastic Plastic, a producer album featuring rappin' ass legends like Inspectah Deck and Del the Funky Homosapien, right-now underground types like YU and Chuuwee, and on my favorite track, "Phone Drone," some dude on YouTube screaming excitedly about getting the new iPhone. …
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  First Spin: Lee Bannon's 'Caligula Theme Music' EP

  April 11, 2012 – This blog has spent plenty of time piling on superlatives in praise of Lee Bannon (innovative producer on par with Clams Casino, and creator of one of the most slept-on release of the year, so far), so I thought I'd let the Sacramento producer discuss Caligula Theme Music, his free download follow-up to February's blenderized, post-Dilla glitch freakout, Fantastic Plastic. …
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  Rap's Most Slept-On Releases of 2012's First Quarter

  April 6, 2012 – Alternate title for this little listicle: THE FIVE MOST SLEPT-ON ALBUMS OF THE SPIN NO TRIVIA ERA. Cutting the year into quarters and gauging where music is at that actually kind-of-random moment is a bit of a cheat. But the sheer amount of rap launched via the Internet necessitates slowing up and seeing what you missed. …
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  New Bliss-Hop From Clams Casino and Lee Bannon

  March 2, 2012 – Early this morning, Clams Casino posted the instrumental to his remix of XV's "Swervin" on Twitter (download Clams Casino's "Swervin"). It's the least well known of the official remixes he did last year (a sunny take on Big K.R.I.T.'s "Moon & Stars," and perfunctory fuzz-ups of Lana Del Rey and Washed Out), but it is the closest to his lambent work on Instrumentals and Rainforest. …
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